MATH-403 Foundations of Mathematics (3)

An introduction to the proof-based methodology of advanced mathematics courses, with emphasis on the fundamentals of logic and set theory (truth-tables and quantifiers, Boolean operations, functions, relations, and cardinality); elementary number theory (mathematical induction and modular arithmetic), and structural properties of the fields of real and complex numbers. Crosslist: MATH-603. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: MATH-222.